Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is the only person who can persuade the militants to lay down their arms, a senior PKK leader in the Kandil Mountains said in an interview

Luis Ayala, the Chilean secretary-general of the Socialist International, came to Turkey last week to express concern about the media campaign by pro-government papers against the main opposition, the social democratic Republican People’s Party (CHP), and one of its MPs, Umut Oran, and show solidarity with them

Arab News (Saudi Arabia) March 15, 2015, p. 10 Deutsch Español Français Martti Ahtisaari, Emma Bonino & Albert Rohan * Later this year, Turkey will host the 2015 G-20 Leaders’ Summit, the 10th annual meeting of the G-20 heads of government. The country’s prominence on the world stage comes at an odd time, when it

Issue Brief (Center for American Progress) March 12, 2015 By Michael Werz and Max Hoffman * President Barack Obama made a large political investment in Turkey in 2009 for a series of compelling reasons, which he laid out in a speech to the Turkish parliament during his first overseas trip as president. His administration recognized